Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (3/24/24)

It has been a hot minute since we last met up for good words by other people, but I'm glad that you've checked back to see if a new edition might be up. It is! It's a rainy day in my part of the world, and we are slogging toward April, but it's officially Spring, so that's a new word to think about being inside.

Poems:

• "Whatever Gets The Hay Down to the Ponies" by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Out Takes/Glove Box)
• The Riveter by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 30, 2023)

 I'd love to read a few good poems by other people to you. Here:

Poems:

• As if Darkness Can Mend It All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)
• Once Later by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The River People by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
• Place Setting by Ann Tweedy (in Lavender Review 2012)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 30, 2022)

Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here are some good ones by wonderful women writers.

 

Poems read:

• Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
• The Cast Off by Marge Piercy (from her book The Moon is Always Female)
• Newton’s Apple by Brooke Matson (from her book In Accelerated Silence)
• As if Darkness Can Mend All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 17, 2022)

 Here's today's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, wherein every Sunday I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee.

Poems read: 

• Consorting with Angels by Anne Sexton (from Live or Die)
• Swimming by Polly Buckingham (from The River People)
• Paen for the Body by Ann Tweedy (from The Body’s Alphabet)
• She Dreams of Being an Artist by Maya Jewell Zeller (from Rust Fish)
• Sparrow’s Sleep by m.l. smoker (from Another Attempt at Rescue)
• Metaphors of Mass Destruction by Brooke Matson (from In Accelerated Silence)
• After the Hysterectomy by Laura Read (from Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 17, 2021)

Every Sunday morning, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here's the session for October 17, 2021.

 

Poems read:

• Love Town by Anne Carson
• Alone by Jack Gilbert
• Stay Home by Wendell Berry
• 36-40 from Bluets by Maggie Nelson
• 52 and 57 by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson
• Poem with a Girl Almost Fifteen by C.D. Wright
• That Purple Were the Color of Our Skin by Maya Jewell Zeller
• The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

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• Listen/watch other coffee and poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (May 16, 2021)

Welcome to Sunday! Here's this week's installment of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, in which I read good poems by other people while we all wake up.

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (5/16/21)

Poems read:

• XXI. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)
• Keyfood by Audre Lorde
• Water by Porsha Olayiwola (listen to full poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LPCoHERA3g)
• Duty by Natasha Trethewey
• The Decision by Jane Hirshfield
• Note by Maya Jewell Zeller
• Tree by Jane Hirshfield
• Like a Cat by Laura Cronk
• XXII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 7, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• In a Country Once Forested by Wendell Berry
• American Dreams by Julia Alvarez
• The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine
• Little Owl who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver
• As if Darkness Can Mend it All by Maya Jewell Zeller
• The Plan by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 3, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• Lies Lies Lies by m.l. smoker
• Finding Something by Jack Gilbert
• Milk by Kaveh Akbar
• Sylvia's Death by Ann Sexton
• Progress by Walter Moore
• She Dreams of Being an Artist by Maya Jewell Zeller
• We are Not Dead by Munthir Abdul-Hur, translated by Sadek Mohammed
• Power by Adrienne Rich